Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-21
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MCT,FVELAND, Jan. 6.--Hutherford b.
Lave leads a sort OF nomadic life
Alst south Of Fremont, O. He has sixty
Sbic kens and innumerable goats. He &C.
IEupies IN nothern Ohio position similar
Dc that which Noryal held on the
#5rampIan Hills. His chickens come from
every cline aud are black Spanish, Leg
bol rs. Cochins, white Brahmas, Shang-
hais and banlams. Lucy mllks the goats,
#Hhicn pasture in a neighboring gran lite
HQuarry and go about chewing the rocks.
Once in while they loiter into Fremont
4 and eat the theat9r advertisements
Of the bin bserds. Rutherford and Lucy
live much on goats milk and the cheese
&nG tue butter that are MADE from 1t.
Last tall, when nuts were ripe, Rather
& ford thought from the flavor of tHe butter
tn at the goats had been feeding on mast.
A short Investigation showed him that
they had been browsing on the advertise
naents OF negro minstrel company, and
DO had been living on the chestnuts Of the
cohtempOrary stage.
Rutherford is quite gray, and is plain,
simple man who laughs aud talks with
his neighbOrs. He has forty acres, his
goats ahd his chickens, and lives as hap
piy as an Arab in his tent. Every year
ne invites the upper class" of Fremont,
bv which is meant the local shopkeepers,
nIllers, usurers and hog packers. cut to
mis- farm, and these have picnic under
stbe trees and drink goats milk and IN
dermented sweet wine. 1t is a great oc-
easion for the village small fry, who
gather to the number OF 500 or 800 to shake
hands with fellow who has been Presi-
dent. The villagers exchange awkward
.compliments uRdsr the trees and fall
& over the furniture and have good time.
Rutherford has cOachman with blue
coat and brass buttons and a nigh hat,
caught up al the side. This coachman is
q sans culotte in respect &c his uniform,
for while his coat and vest and hat so to.
gether he wears Rutherf0rd's cast-ofl
r.rousers, HIS coat is a concession To
funkeyism, and Rutheriord's trousers are
"a concession to democracy. Rutherford
has a tisb horn, by blowing a olast on
which ne calls the cOachman. Whenever
Rutherford wants the cOachman to hitch
up the horses he goes to the secOnd-story
window Of his house, pops out his head
and blows the horn, which is about three
feet long. The cyclones which devastate
Ohio are popularity attributed to this fish
horn.
81 Lucy is getting fat. She used to be a
buckeye belle, with checks like red
tapples and eyes like sl0e berries. She
went from the arm house to the White
House, and drank catnip tea all the way
iSbe is o charitable and kindly woman,
and as a shining example in the prohibl.
ton movement, Is considered to be worth
4 a hundred Francis Murphys. Rutherford
III in
country husking bees and apple parings
where be first met Lucy, but care on &C
count of his chickens has turned his haiI
bite. Both Rutherford and Lucy are
liked by all their nelghbors because they
came back from the White House and fed
their chickens and walked on the com.
mon ground, and breathed the common
air, and did Rot 20 around stubbing theiI
toes against the stars.
When the sun is rising over Fremont
and the dew is ON the grass in Ohio, Ruth.
erfOrd may often be seen with little pan
i-of grain, feeding his chickens. In the
Agray dawn the chickens gather under his
"A window, and wait for the ex-President tC
rise, as the oOurtiers of Louis NV
gathered at the royal chamber. The
chickens follow Rutherford around when
he walks through his fields. and inspect
his farm with him. He takes them tC
4 buOhG4 duu VIA WILL wv
or three coops OF chickens and three
or feur pumpkins. the Hayes exhibit
makes large part of many country fairs
Often the chickens come back to The little
Hayes farm gay with ribbons and crow
ing with victory And the pumpk ms,
they come back wearing blue ribbons,
but all their gladness 10 swiftly changed
into pies. Some of the chickens ''soldier''
on the ex-President, but most of them lay
Il -
itv, so that Rutherford gets on AN
average fully forty eggs dav. AS there
is no such thing as untermehted eggnOE
.eggnog never crosses the Hayes thresh-
old, and Ruthlord may not use all his
eggs. So he sells enough to keep tie
chickens in bopedust and gravel
Rutherford has a little list Of funny an.
ecdotes, little golden treasury OF pnns. 4
regular sinking fund of humor, and lighi
armory of wit that has never rusted fol
lack of use. Te people not familiar with
the older almanacs his lighter conversation
is entertaining and pleasing. Rutherford
delights TO tell funny stories to his neigh
bOrs, and often pauses beside his chicken
coop to relate some "chestnut' that be
read bg pine knot in btters almanac
In 1877. or course, the joke seems crisp
for everybody else VINO survived the frs
edition of the almanac is dead. And SO II
happens that Rutneriord's reputation al
a humorist equals his reputation as 4
poulterer, and many of his rustic admireri
regret that lac ever went into politics, ant
wOnderlngly believe that if he had no
been elected President he would be a sec
0nd Bill Aye
Thus passes the declining days or tn,
nineteenth President He once rule,
$4,000, 900 people; he now rules siXt
chickens. Loved by his chicken. his goat
and his neignbors. Hayes flourishes
rather than loiters toward his tomb. i
The lat land Of Ohio-the greatest states
man poulterer, the only Buckeye CinciI
natus! l.. Ii. UPPER.